Is Israel going to continue to be ‘Fortress Israel’? Or, as we all hope, become accepted into the neighborhood, which I believe is the only way we can move forward in harmony.
ABDULLAH IIWhen we try to push the envelope, there are certain sectors of society that say this is a Zionist plot to sort of destabilize our country, or this is an American agenda.
More Abdullah II Quotes
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If you believe that the killing of innocent people is right, then you are not part of my future.
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At the end of the day we want to bring stability and hope to Iraq. That’s the only way to defeat terrorism.
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I don’t think the Middle East could afford another war.
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When you get billions in aid and your weapons resupplied and your ammunition stock resupplied, you don’t learn the lesson that war is bad and nobody wins.
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No matter what’s happening in the Middle East – the Arab Spring, et cetera, the economic challenges, high rates of unemployment – the emotional, critical issue is always the Israeli-Palestinian one.
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Mr. President, prime ministers, let us have ambitions: ambitions to move beyond the violence and occupation, to the day when two states, Palestine and Israel, can live together side by side in peace and security.
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Fifty-seven countries in the world, a third of the United Nations, do not recognize Israel. In a way, I think North Korea has better international relations than Israel.
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When there’s a status quo, usually what shakes everybody up is some sort of military confrontation, at which point we all come running and screaming to pick up the pieces.
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It’s a burden, but it needs to be done, and you have to have the courage and wisdom to see it through.
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You’re always going to have extremists in every religion.
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I’m not the type of person that is forced.
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Don’t take ‘no’ for an answer.
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We have to always hope in humanity that people will make the right choices.
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I think the debate in our society now is that people have to agree on zero-tolerance to terrorism.
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In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own successes – a virtuous cycle of change.
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